Conclusion: The transition to Vista is going to be far less painful than everybody said it was going to be.
12 hours later:
The only way you can install anything, is to have administrator privileges.
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I figured it may be better to install for the current user only. Trouble is, as entering an admin password installs the game on the admin account, the standard account you REALLY want the game on, can't see it.
After that I thought it might be best to set the installer to not require admin privileges. But in doing this, the installer simply refused to work - it couldn't create the program subfolder.
Conclusion: I'm at a loss.
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I figured it may be better to install for the current user only. Trouble is, as entering an admin password installs the game on the admin account, the standard account you REALLY want the game on, can't see it.
After that I thought it might be best to set the installer to not require admin privileges. But in doing this, the installer simply refused to work - it couldn't create the program subfolder.
Conclusion: I'm at a loss.
"You are coming to a sad realization: Cancel or Allow?" ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxOIebkmrqs
More seriously, I thank you and the others in this thread for exploring these problems and sharing the results. Sooner or later Vista will probably become the dominant version of Windows, so these security issues will need to be dealt with by Blitzers wishing to sell games or even distribute freeware. I gratefully look forward to reading about everyone's continued progress.